Word: rest
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...after they graduate. And while University employees should have their grievances heard by a sympathetic ear, allowing them to vote could create a conflict of interest for Corporation members. Members might be forced to back the wishes of the group that selected them over the best interests of the rest of the University. Alumni are far enough removed from the daily operation of the University to prevent a similar situation from arising through Board of Overseer elections...
...users of his junk bonds. Says MCI chairman William McGowan, whom Drexel helped raise $2.4 billion for building long-distance telephone lines: "When we first went to Milken, we were not even qualified for junk bonds, but he was able to help us. People went to him because the rest of the financial establishment was turning away companies like ours...
...years many Americans have come to regard as no less inalienable than freedom of religion or expression. It is a right exercised by 1.6 million U.S. women each year -- some rich, some poor; some barely out of childhood, some close to middle age; nearly a fifth married, the rest single. But in the eyes of many Americans, the right to abortion, established by the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, is not a right at all, but a wrong...
...performer of artistic genius, but no man is a hero to his corps de ballet. The big morale crisis in Private View involved the casting of the film Dancers, a modern gloss on the classic Giselle. Less than half the troupe's dancers were selected; for the rest, rejection amounted to a devastating appraisal of their entire season. When corps member Julie Kent, 17 and exquisite, won the ingenue role, angry charges of unfairness increased. Fraser notes that when the movie was finished and Kent's disastrous speaking voice squeaked through the land, tempers cooled. Comments Fraser: "Never underestimate...
Moments later, with his wife Mila and their three eldest children looking on, the Prime Minister declared on national television that Canada had embarked on an era of "openness to the rest of the world." Voters, he said, "have stated with a clear sense of their identity what they want to be and what they want...